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W. C. G'ILMER. COMBINATION TOOL.

No. 492,532. Patented Peb. 28', y1893..

-its long section. n f square B is inserted in the slot A4 of the flange UNITED STATES PATENT Prion.

WILLIAM C. GILMER, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO LINCOLN MANNING, OF SAME PLACE.Y

COMBINATION-Tool..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 492,532, dated February 28, 1893.

Application filed June 7, 1892. Serial No. 435,857. (No model.) "t

T0 zZ/Z whom i may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. GILMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stockton, in the county of San Joaquin and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in implements used by artificers for laying oif lines to which work is to be sawed or cut; and the novelty consists in the construction, arrangement and adaptation of devices as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of my implement or improved tool. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side view of the flanged gage bar removed from the square. Fig. 4 is a view of the same as seen looking down on Fig. l with the square removed showing gage lines to which the square is set.

Similar letters in the different views indicate corresponding parts.

The gage bar consists of the body A and the lateral flanges A designed for a purpose presently described. The body A is provided with a slot A2 and the face or outer side of the flanges A with a long slot A3 and a short slot A4. The square B is provided with a slot B2 in its short ortongue section and a slot B in The short section of the A and the long section in the slot A3. Aset screw C is inserted through the slots B and A2 and connects the square B and the gage bar adjustably together. The short section of the square is attached to the body A, of the gage bar by a set screw C. y

In some cases when the gage bar is removed from the square, as shown in Fig. 3, a spirit level as D, may be connected to said gage bar by a set screw C2, and the gage bar may be 5o employed as a level.

is set to the desired out marked on the gage t bar and is secured in position by the set screw, thus giving the top and bottom bevels of rafters or braces for one-fourth, onethird, onehalf, and two-thirds pitch roofs. When the bevels of hip rafters or jacks is required t-he square is set to the desired marks as shown on the face or outer side of the flanges of the gage bar, also When the bevel and down cuts are required for planceer or purline butting against hip rafters or sheeting boards on hips or Valleys; also the outs for moldings or a raking cornice with a perpendicular facia.

Vhen the implement or tool is used in making a bevel, the square is rst adjusted with respect to the gage bar as above described, and the wider flange A', of the gage bar is set against the edge of the rafter to be cut, so that the square will rest upon the side of the rafter, when a line may be drawn along the outer edge of the long section of the square to indicate Where the rafter is to be cut.

By the provisionof the flanges upon the C gage bar it will be seen that my implement may be readily squared upon the piece of timber to be cut; and it will be further perceived that the said lianges will serve to prevent movement of the implement when the same is placed upon the rafter as before described. By means of the two slots when used as a stair fence in laying out stairs, any rise and footing may be obtained that is desired, the set screw C in such use being inserted in the slot B2, v

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isl In an implement or tool for the purpose described, the combination of the graduated square B, having the slots B', and B2, in its 95 the slots A3, and A4, designed to receive the roo branches of the square, the set screw C', piv- In testimony whereof I aflxmy signature in otally connecting the gage bar to one branch presence of two Witnesses. of the square and the set screw C, taking through the slot B', of the square and the S101;A WILLIAM C. GILMER. 5 A2, of the gage bar and adapted to adjustably Vitnesses:

fix the square and gage bar with respect to JOSHUA B. WEBSTER,

A,each other, substantially ems-specified. J AMES T. SUMMER-VILLE. 

